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Ch7. “You are not the Body”: (Re)Interpreting the Body in and through Integral Yoga

by Erin F. Johnston – Based on one year of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and enactive immersion, this chapter argues that “becoming” an Integral Yoga practitioner is intimately bound up with a cognitive and perceptual reframing of the body—one marked by the cultivation of a sense of separation or “bodily detachment.” In the findings, the author highlights